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Join Websleuths Radio for the final discussion of THE KILLING SEASON
with Josh Zemam, Rachel Mills and special guests including Bob Kolker author of Lost Girls

GALVESTON – It's a mystery that started with a sinking sailboat and the amazing rescue of a couple and seven children.

Three weeks later, the family is missing and investigators have discovered they may have lied.

"Just got this strange feeling something's not right," said Sgt. Louis Trochesset with the Galveston County Sheriff's Office Marine Division. "I've heard they were going to the Virgin Islands, we've heard they were going down to Mexico."

did anyone follow their thread here? (I think there was one, will look now.)

ETA: Shrug. Perhaps not. I can't seem to find a thread from when they had to be rescued, but I really thought there was one.

RSBM

There was another thread about a different family... who needed rescuing from the (Indian?) Ocean when their toddler fell ill. Is that the one you're referring to ?
Quite a bit of controversy over whether they should have taken children on a journey that risky.

There was another thread about a different family... who needed rescuing from the (Indian?) Ocean when their toddler fell ill. Is that the one you're referring to ?
Quite a bit of controversy over whether they should have taken children on a journey that risky.

yes, perhaps that was it. My no. 1 fear is dying in open water, so I never clicked that thread.

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
- E. B. White

If the sailboat is causing public and/or environmental harm, it makes no sense that they would have to wait any amount of time. I agree, if a wrecked car were just abandoned alongside a road, I doubt it would take 20 days to have it towed somewhere. This story makes no sense.

you would think they would at least have some or all on camera at the hospital...so they could show that on the news as DO you Recognize these people??
was the whole family taken to the hospital with the child that was checked out, and all just left stranded at the hospital?? What did they tell the workers there? Did anyone see them leave? Was no one arranging lodging, clothing (like maybe Salvation Army?) Anything?
did LE find who they bought the boat from? What did they say??
VERY strange...couldn't be easy lurking around with that many children in tow.